London on Film

Pam Hirsch, Chris O'Rourke, Pam Hirsch, Chris O'Rourke

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319649788
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319649795
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city—London—has been represented on film. In particular, the collection examines how films about London have responded to social, material and political change in the city, either by capturing and so influencing how we think about London, or by acting as catalysts (intentionally or otherwise) for public debate. Individual essays explore films ranging from the earliest actualities of the late nineteenth century to contemporary blockbusters. The book will appeal to film scholars and students, as well as to readers interested in the history of London and its changing image.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• List of Figures
• Introduction: Film Londons
• ‘Local Film Subjects’: Suburban Cinema, 1895–1910
• Glamour and Crime: The London Nightclub in Silent Film
• Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936): Conspirators and Bombs in Actual, Literary and Filmic London
• ‘A Relic of the Bad Old Days’: Hollywood’s London in None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
• London Can Take It: Documentary Reconstructions of the City
• From the Docks to Notting Hill: Cinematic Mappings of Imperial and Post-Imperial London
• Wanting More: Gender, Space and Desire in Darling and Four in the Morning
• Queer London on Film: Victim (1961), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Nighthawks (1978)
• Housing Policy and Building Types: From High Hopes to High-Rise
• A Melancholy Topography: Patrick Keiller’s London
• From Dogpower to Ratropolis: London in Animated Film
• Skateboard City: London in Skateboarding Films
• Shaun of the Dead and the Construction of Cult Space in Millennial London
• The Cinematic Revival of ‘Low London’ in the Age of Speculative Urbanism
• London in Transition: Sites of Melancholy
• East–West: Reflections on the Changing Cinematic Topography of London
• Index